Kim Il Sung, Eternal President of the DPRK

The Korean people hold Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) as the eternal President of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Kim Il Sung is the founding father of socialist Korea, which is now being recognized by the international community as being powerful in politico-ideological, military, and scientific and technological aspects.

In the period of the armed struggle to liberate the country from the Japanese military occupation (1905-1945), the he advanced an original line of building a people’s government and established people’s revolutionary governments of a new type in guerrilla bases.

The experiences and exploits accumulated in this period served as valuable foundations for the establishment of a people’s government and its activities after Korea’s liberation (August 15, 1945).

In such works as On Building the Party, State and Armed Forces in the Liberated Homeland, On the Progressive Democracy and On the Building of New Korea and the National United Front, which he published soon after the country’s liberation, he put forward an original political line, the line of founding a democratic people’s republic to meet the character and task of the Korean revolution and the desire of the Korean people.

On September 9, 1948, the founding of the DPRK, the first democratic state for people in the East, was proclaimed, an event signifying that the Korean people, who had been forced into a tragic fate of a stateless nation for decades, became dignified citizens of an independent, sovereign state.

Kim Il Sung set independence, self-sufficiency and self-defense as the fundamental principles in the building of an independent, sovereign state, and adhered to them in the whole course of leading the Republic.

He maintained an independent approach to all the issues arising in state building, leading the Korean revolution under the uplifted banner of the Juche idea.

He adopted the type of a government, the line of building a state and the politics for democratic reforms in the Korean style, and carried out the socialist revolution with a creative stand as suited to the aspiration and demand of the Korean people and the actual conditions of the country.

Advancing the line of building an independent national economy, he ensured that all sectors of the national economy including industry and agricultural relied on domestic labor and technology, and that industrial bases for national defense were built up and their production lines updated to turn out any modern military hardware. He established a people-centered socialist system on the land of Korea, where people are masters of everything and everything serves them, and provided them with all social and political conditions for fully exercising their rights as masters of the state.

He set it as the basic principle for the activities of the ruling party and the government to serve the people, and had their desires and will embodied fully in state policies.

Forever will shine the achievements of Kim Il Sung who built a genuine country for people and the people-centered socialist system by dint of his original idea of state building and seasoned and sophisticated leadership.